The word
"westerly" refers to something that is moving or facing towards the west direction.
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With varying swells coming from the north - west, west and south west and with a wind
westerly wind direction, the surfing conditions here are absolutely amazing.
At the same time, poleward shifts
of westerly winds in the Southern Ocean reduced the region's ability to suck up CO2 as have mid-latitude droughts, which slowed the growth rate of forests and plants that capture carbon.
States that several interlinked processes have been suggested as contributing to the warming, including stratospheric ozone depletion, local sea - ice loss, an increase
in westerly winds, and changes in the strength and location of low — high - latitude atmospheric teleconnections
The zonal warm phase occurred from the 1910s to 1940s and 1970s to 1990s and is characteristic of
strong westerly winds in the northern and southern hemisphere.
However, rotation results in generally easterly winds at the Equator and the Poles with
prevailing westerly winds in the middle latitudes.
Trevor Horne Architects in collaboration with Asprey, who financed the development, [10] Cabinet's directors and several of the gallery artists, conceived a twelve - sided detached brick building which neighbours Vauxhall City Farm to the south
with westerly views across Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to The Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
Typically, a blocking ridge as strong as the one projected for this week is eventually undercut by strong
westerly flow as the flow pattern becomes increasingly unstable, which either collapses the blocking pattern or allows a low - latitude storm track to develop (which would be favorable for California precipitation).
Stronger
mid-latitude westerly wind maxima have occurred in both hemispheres in most seasons from at least 1979 to the late 1990s, and poleward displacements of corresponding Atlantic and southern polar front jet streams have been documented.
The hurricane is about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 km per hour), the NHC said, adding that it is moving in a north -
westerly direction at 10 mph (17 km / h).
WHOI published on the centennial scale Pacific Oscillation which is also blissfully ignore and Toggwieler and Briereley have published on the impact of
shifting westerlies and zonal / meridional temperature gradients also blissfully ignored.
This quaint waterman's home has been transformed into a beautiful spacious open floor plan perfect for entertaining, stunning sunsets with
westerly views of the Chesapeake Bay from nearly every room in the house.
The atmosphere in many northern regions like Canada (Northern America) or Europe is currently dominated by
westerly jet stream winds.
The milder European winters are driven mainly
by westerly winds from North America that dip into the Caribbean and carry warm air across the Atlantic.
Wind patterns must have included strong polar easterlies at high northern latitudes, prevailing
westerlies at midlatitudes, and northeast trade winds in the tropics.
There is a
south westerly swell direction with the wind coming in from the east.
The best sun set views are in the
North westerly locations in Port Douglas and that's mainly the bars and restaurants that line the Coral Sea entrance and the leads to the Port Douglas Marina.
Catches more
westerly swell that other beaches nearby, but does get affected by the wind.
Wonderful
westerly facing views over Lorient Bay, St Barts, Les Cases (LIN) is simple, yet very comfortably furnished...
Furthermore, easterly QBO is more common than
westerly QBO during the Nordic Hemisphere winter.
This variation is thought to be because the larger,
more westerly islands are exposed to nutrient - rich upwelling currents that provide ideal conditions for green and red algae, the iguanas» main...
«Dry season» meaning no rain, big swells and ultra-consistent
westerly blowing winds of 10 - 20mph all add up to world - class waves for months on end.
«Minden is the main service centre for the south and
westerly sides of our county.
It is noteworthy that long waves from the troposphere can propagate into the stratosphere during the winter
when westerlies and sudden warmings occur, but this is not the case during the summer when easterly winds prevail.
Koffman, B.G., Kreutz, K.J., Breton, D.J., Kane, E.J., Winski, D.A., Birkel, S.D., Kurbatov, A.V., and Handley, M.J., 2014, Centennial - scale variability of the Southern
Hemisphere westerly wind belt in the eastern Pacific over the past two millennia.
There are some parts of the picture which are clear, particularly the way that climate change is
causing westerly winds to shift southwards, but there are still huge gaps that we need to fill in order to fully understand how much human activity is changing weather in the region.
Tiree (Scottish Gaelic: Tiriodh, pronounced [ˈtʲʰiɾʲəɣ]-RRB- is the most
westerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Accompanying this summer cooling, the upper -
level westerly jet stream over East Asia shifts southward and the East Asian summer monsoon weakens, which results in the tendency towards increased droughts in northern China and floods in the Yangtze River valley (Yu et al., 2004b).
Set mainly in a remote
westerly tip of Ireland in the 1940s and»50s, this stunning new novel from one of Canada's bestselling authors is at once intimate and epic in scope.
Days before making landfall, due to Sandy's more
westerly storm track, Sandy interacted with an atmospheric trough and its cold Arctic air mass that had dipped down over the eastern USA.
Shorefast ice conditions along the northeastern Chukchi Sea coast (Barrow to Wainwright) reflect the combination of late freeze - up after the 2012 record minimum summer ice extent and
persistent westerly flow advecting warm air throughout fall and early winter.
The 2006 Saul / DCI press release quotes the Koch - funded Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels, who stated, «There are many more factors determining hurricane frequency and severity, some of which (such
as westerly wind strength) should become LESS conducive to hurricanes as the planet warms.»
These kinks can block
warm westerly winds from reaching Europe, while allowing in winds from Arctic Siberia.
With its unobstructed
westerly sunset views, dramatic rocky beach and picturesque seafront with yacht access, this full - service resort, spa and residential community dances to the beat of a new mantra: transformative wellness to nourish the body, mind and soul.
This was the first
westerly doing of the confab, a signature event for F+WM edia.